Prioritizing Sustainability Criteria in Urban Planning Processes: Methodology Application

Wallbaum, Holger; Krank, Sabrina; Teloh, Rolf

doi:10.1061/(asce)up.1943-5444.0000038

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“…Concerning the planning perspective, Wallbaum et al bring up the incompleteness of the sustainability assessment methods when city planning is concerned [53]. Further, they stress the importance of incorporating the environmental perspectives into the early phase planning.…”

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Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

Heinonen

Säynäjoki

Kuronen³

et al. 2012

Energies

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Built environment carbon reduction strategies materialize predominantly in city-level greenhouse gas (GHG) management, where new residential development appears as one of the key instruments. However, city-level assessments are often incapable of producing data at a community or neighborhood level and thus they may heavily underestimate the emissions from new construction. This paper explores the implications of low-energy residential construction as an instrument of climate change mitigation in the built environment and demonstrates why city-level approaches easily fail to identify the significance of the emissions from construction. We employ a hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) approach to demonstrate that, when the temporal allocation of emissions from the construction and use phases is taken into account, construction phase emissions come to have a central role in finding effective GHG mitigation strategies-even when the emissions from all consumption activities during the use phase are included in the assessment. In fact, their role would seem to be so central that new residential construction cannot be utilized as an instrument of city carbon management, even over a relatively long period. While we analyze a case study from Finland, the analysis intends to highlight the situation throughout the globe.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

Heinonen

Säynäjoki

Kuronen³

et al. 2012

Energies

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“…Sustainability objectives are best incorporated during pre-project planning (Wallbaum et al 2011) in order to ensure their early integration into conceptual plans, thus minimizing the risk of costly modifications at later phases. For urban development projects, Boyko et al (2010) propose a baseline model of stages and activities in sustainable urban design decision-making, while Mulligan et al (2011) describe the development of project-tailored sustainability requirements.…”

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New Eco-City: Incorporating Sustainability into the Concept Master Plan

Mneimneh

Srour

Kaysi

2014

Construction Research Congress 2014

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Several international tools and standards (e.g. LEED, BREEAM) exist for evaluating the level of sustainability of buildings and neighborhoods. Nonetheless, they are still not available in the context of new city-scale developments. While such sustainability appraisal tools are important, of special interest to practitioners is how to ensure that their requirements are well integrated in a proposed city Master Plan (MP). New eco-city development is the focus of this study. A concise pre-project planning process, consisting of stages and activities, is proposed as a guide to assist the design manager of a new eco-city construction project. The proposed process covers the Concept Phase and assists in evaluating the Concept MP alternatives in light of pre-defined sustainability requirements.

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“…A relatively smaller number of studies examine the social impact of urban renewal projects. To encourage stakeholder participation and enrich a community's unique characteristics, the studies developed indicators reflecting the opinions of various stakeholders, such as landlords, tenants, and households [35]; the owner's tendency to sell the property [36]; and the management of the participation process [37][38][39]. In addition, in recent years, many have expressed critical perspectives on the demolition-type development taking place in East Asia [33,40] and considered indicators such as the preservation of the local environment and community [29,41,42].…”

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Evaluation of the Criteria for Designating Maintenance Districts in Low-Rise Residential Areas: Urban Renewal Projects in Seoul

2019

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Since the 1970s, the South Korean government has been redeveloping blighted residential environments and adopting large-scale redevelopment policies to solve urban housing-related problems. However, it is difficult to designate areas for redevelopment and identify areas where redevelopment is currently unfeasible. This study establishes a framework to support decision-making in a selection of housing renewal districts. The proposed Residential Environment Maintenance Index (REMI) overcomes the limitations of existing indicators, which are often biased toward physical requirements. Using this, we rationalize the designation of maintenance areas by considering both physical and social requirements and outline the renewal district designation procedure. To derive REMI, we used an analytic hierarchy process analysis and estimated the index's reliability by clarifying the relative importance and priority of the indicators based on surveys of 300 subject matter experts. We analyzed various simulations by applying REMI at sites where maintenance is currently planned or discharged in Seoul. These reveal that the total number of urban renewal projects can be adjusted by adjusting the number of renewal district designations through the proposed REMI according to the economic situation. The results have implications for understanding REMI's possible application and flexible management at the administrative level to pursue long-term sustainable development.Sustainability 2019, 11, 5876 2 of 20 of housing types [7], deletion of existing urban tissue [8], low resettlement rate of indigenous people [5], and destruction of communities' unique characteristics [9]. To systematically and efficiently manage and maintain the residential areas that have deteriorated and need improving, various projects have been implemented under the government's initiative [7]. Accordingly, the "Act on the Improvement of Urban Areas and Residential Environments" (hereinafter, the IUARE Act) [10], which encompasses a systematic management plan for improving deteriorated residential areas, was enforced in 2002. The IUARE Act contributes to the improvement of urban environments and the quality of residential life by integrating housing development projects and housing reconstruction projects, regenerating declining infrastructure, and renewing deteriorated housing infrastructure. The IUARE Act details four steps to implement an urban renewal project (Figure 1). The first step is to develop a master plan for a housing redevelopment or reconstruction project. In the second step, the maintenance area is designated. Maintenance of an area must form a part of any urban renewal project. In other words, areas that are intended to be redeveloped to improve the residential environment should first be designated as maintenance areas. In the second step, approval is obtained to form the Promotion Committee, and the establishment of a renewal association is authorized with the consent of at least 75% of the landowners. The third step involves issuing an urban renew...

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Prioritizing Sustainability Criteria in Urban Planning Processes: Methodology Application

Cited by 53 publications

References 27 publications

Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

New Eco-City: Incorporating Sustainability into the Concept Master Plan

Evaluation of the Criteria for Designating Maintenance Districts in Low-Rise Residential Areas: Urban Renewal Projects in Seoul

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